The field notebook.

If found, please return to your dog.

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A tan Indian street dog and a black labrador running together through a dew-wet meadow, with low sun and mist among the pines behind.

Four notes, all of them drafts.

Four notes so far. All drafts.

They will change before Pawgrins opens. They are general reading and not veterinary advice. For your dog’s health, ask your vet.

Press a toe to see what is filed under it.Two notes filed under Academy. Press the face for all four.Two notes filed under Care. Press the face for all four.One note filed under Retreat. Press the face for all four.Two notes filed under Rescue. Press the face for all four.

A tan Indian street puppy sitting on a worn stone step in warm evening light, looking at the camera.

The first days with a new dog.

For a while your dog will not know this is home. Your job in the first days is to be calm, predictable and slightly boring.

This note is a draft. It is filed under Care and Academy.

A brown-and-white dog sitting on a dewy lawn, looking up and away, with a long leather line lying loose on the grass.

What force-free training means.

It means teaching a dog with things the dog wants. The rest of this note is what that looks like on a wet Tuesday.

This note is a draft. It is filed under Academy and Rescue.

A tan-and-white Indian street dog sitting in a sunlit lane, looking straight at the camera, with an old limewashed wall behind.

Why we start with India’s street dogs.

Every stay gives a stray a chance. That sentence is where Pawgrins begins, so here is who it means.

This note is a draft. It is filed under Rescue.

A beagle asleep on a linen daybed in a sunlit limewashed room, with a folded blanket beside it and a brass water bowl on the floor.

How to choose where your dog stays.

Go and look before you book. Ask where your dog will sleep, then ask to see it.

This note is a draft. It is filed under Care and Retreat.

The rest of this notebook is blank.

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